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... that the death of seven-year-old Jessica Dubroff, who tried to become the youngest to fly an aircraft across the US, led to a law prohibiting record-seeking children from touching the flight controls?

... that the cloth fibers in the casing of most bicycle tires are oriented diagonally, forming a bias ply?

... that "locked-in syndrome", in which a patient is aware and awake but cannot move or communicate due to complete paralysis of most muscles except for the eyes, was coined by neurologist Dr. Fred Plum?

... that author Debbie Renner claimed to have once competed in professional wrestling as the "Tasmanian Devil" prior to becoming a full-time writer?

00:00, 17 June 2010 (UTC)

... that the Pithole Stone Arch Bridge(pictured) is unusual for being surprisingly well built for only a ruralbackroad, but was initially thought to be of inferior quality and was not expected to last?

... that Downfall, the upcoming American television game show series, features contestants who must answer trivia questions correctly before their cash and prizes fall from the top of a 10-story building?

... that Irwin Rosten's 1975 documentary The Incredible Machine, which included some of the first pictures taken inside the human body to be presented on film, became the most-watched program in PBS history?

... that the Mahabaleshwar Temple(pictured) in Gokarna is one of the seven sacred Muktikshetras (places of salvation) in India and is said to bestow immense blessings upon devotees who even glimpse it?

... that flautist Marina Piccinini recorded Flute Sonatas of J.S. Bach, in collaboration with the Brasil Guitar Duo, who won a scholarship at the Concert Artists Guild, twenty years after Piccinini did so?

... that eight candidates have died fighting British general elections since 1918?

... that in the early 1930s, mathematician Gerhard Kowalewski persuaded more women at German universities than anyone else to become doctors in mathematics?

06:00, 3 June 2010 (UTC)

... that, according to a UN independent investigation headed by Paul Volcker(pictured), during the AWB Oil-for-Wheat Scandal, AWB paid more than $221.7 million in illicit transfers to the regime of Saddam Hussein?

... that in Serbian tradition, a zmajevit was a man whose spirit could leave his body while he was asleep, and fly skywards to fight against the demon ala that led hail clouds over fields to destroy crops?